Calendar web control and different languages

[Adrian Parker]

I have a calendar control that I use as a popup on web pages.

When a browser session comes in with a different language e.g. French, the date.tostring(sFormat,oCultureInfo) function will convert
the names of the months / days etc to french. However, the calendar control always displays the months / days in English. How do
I force the calendar control to use the specific cultures names ?

 

[Peter Huang]

Hi Adrian,

From the description, it seems that you wants the set the CultureInfo of
Calendar Webcontrol.
Have I fully understood you? If there is anything I misunderstood, please
feel free to let me know.

I think you may try to set the current thread's culture in the OnInit
method.

override protected void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture =new
System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr-FR");
InitializeComponent();
base.OnInit(e);
}

Here is the link about predefined CultureInfo names and identifiers are
accepted and used by CultureInfo Class

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/
frlrfsystemglobalizationcultureinfoclasstopic.asp

Please apply my suggestion above and let me know if it helps resolve your
problem.


Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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[Adrian Parker]

Thanks Peter.

It worked, but I don't see why I have to do that in the specific page when I have

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(Request.UserLanguages(0))

in the session start event.

-Adrian

 

[Peter Huang]

Hi Adrian,

If you wants to persist the culture information during the whole session of
certain user, you can do the things in the Global.asax file.

protected void Session_Start(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
HttpContext.Current.Response.Cookies.Add(new HttpCookie("cul","fr-FR"));
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture=new
System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr-FR");
}

protected void Application_AuthenticateRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (HttpContext.Current.Request.Cookies["cul"]!=null )
{
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture=new
System.Globalization.CultureInfo(HttpContext.Current.Request.Cookies["cul"].
Value.ToString());

}
}

In this way, when you redirect the page another one, the culture will not
change.

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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[Adrian Parker]

Hi Peter,

Many thanks, that works a treat.

-Adrian